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> I always fell a way back to a more text focused web should also have even more a focus on hypertext than the original web did. This is something that struck
by hombre_fatal 5y ago
> I always fell a way back to a more text focused web should also have even more a focus on hypertext than the original web did.
This is something that struck me with Gemini.
What happens is that since there are no inline links, you are basically penalized for adding links because you have to disrupt your prose with a stack of links, each on their own line, before resuming your content.
It focused so much on the text-only part of the early web that it forgot about the part where people linked to each other heavily. It's like it imagines the ideal web as just a bunch of online books rather than interconnected documents.
- zozbot234 5y ago> What happens is that since there are no inline links, you are basically penalized for adding links because you have to disrupt your prose with a stack of links, each on their own line, before resuming your content. Just use footnotes.[0][1] [0] Like this [1] Or this[1a] [1a] Or even this.
- IgorPartola 5y agoSo a PDF.
- afavour 5y agoWhich is objectively worse than an inline link.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoI find it far less disruptive for actually reading a text, in which you want to follow references after you've read the text. If you do that while you read the text, you're no longer actually reading the text.